KEINTON-MANSFIELD, a parish in the hundred
of CATSASH, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles
(B.N.E.) from Somerton, containing 349 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £6. 13. 9., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The Rev.
George Stone was patron in 1810. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary Magdalene, and consists of a nave
and a chancel, with an arched passage on the north
side of the former, which leads to an octagonal tower
at the west end. In this parish is dug a kind of hard
blue stone, much used for paving. The old Roman
Fosse-way passes on the south-east of the parish.